Re: [gentoo-user] Having problems with vixie-cron

2005-02-17 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Kenworthy wrote: | I am having problems with vixie-cron: My laptop is usually turned off | at night and cron.daily is set to run by the gentoo default at 03.01am. | Even if I start it up at 6am and let it sit for a couple of hours, it | picks u

Re: [gentoo-user] Having problems with vixie-cron

2005-02-17 Thread Tres Melton
Try looking at the script file: /usr/sbin/run-crons it is run every ten minutes by /etc/crontab and looks for things that haven't been done recently. Adjustment here may be necessary. An alternative may be to edit /etc/init.d/local so that it checks the time stamp on the database and updates it

[gentoo-user] Having problems with vixie-cron

2005-02-17 Thread William Kenworthy
I am having problems with vixie-cron: My laptop is usually turned off at night and cron.daily is set to run by the gentoo default at 03.01am. Even if I start it up at 6am and let it sit for a couple of hours, it picks up the missing cron job(s) sometime after 9am (not sure when exactly). Where do